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recently looked into Campbell's later poems written in old
age, and said sadly and emphatically that they were a great
warning.

" He spoke up for sermons and said that he liked sermons
to be sermons and not lectures. He said he had heard a
very good one by chance when he was staying at the Peacock
Inn at Rowsley in Derbyshire, a delightful old Inn which he
urged me to go and see. He showed me with great reverence
a bit of Dante's coffin. He seemed to enjoy the good things
of this life, brought out a bottle of champagne with great
gusto and enjoyed his wine and cigars."

Prosperity in America.—" The most conservative country
in the world is America—as regards prosperity. Almost
everyone has the means of living with some comfort, there is
therefore less envy and less desire to disturb the existing
order of things than in those old states where the domain
of the noble is surrounded by an indigent peasantry, and
where there are two classes—those who own principalities
and those who own nothing. The policy of the millionaire
in England is to isolate himself and weaken his natural
supporters by buying out all those who are less wealthy
than himself, thereby making himself a more conspicuous
object of attack, converting the friends of property into its
foes and making apparent to every mind the pitiless rapidity
with which humanity is being divorced from the soil. Lord
Overstone may be secure and may buy up Berkshire with
impunity: the more splendid fortune of Astor is certainly
secure."

American Republicanism.—" I think it might fairly be
alleged by an enemy of American republicanism that fortunes
are as large, that luxury is as great, that wealth is as insolently
displayed in America as in any European monarchy. The
marble palace of A. T. Stewart is not the ideal abode of a
republican. But such reproaches would miss the point. In
America a man is none the better for these splendours, but
rather the worse. Liberty indeed is allowed for extravagances
which injure nobody, but it is a contemptuous liberty. In
Europe a man is made noble by his house and his retinue :
in America such a man could only be noble in spite of them."

General Hurlbert and Ben. Butler (December 5th, 1873,
Washington).—" These two dined with me to-night.

" I asked what were the mutual feelings of the two armies
in the late war.

" General Hurlbert told a story of how he ordered an attack